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I am writing a scientific paper and I am having difficulty adding a "copyright" footer on the first page. I am currently having a paper which looks like this (from howtotex.com):

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(Link to template)

I altered it a little bit, so far no problems. However I want to have a little text above the "1template by howtotex.com" which is needed for the journal I am writing for. In this text information like where it was presented and a copyright disclaimer is added. So in between the black line and the "1template from howtotex.com" and without a number in front of it. I have no clue how to do that, any help would be really appreciated!

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    Welcome to TeX.sx! Usually, we don't put a greeting or a “thank you” in our posts. While this might seem strange at first, it is not a sign of lack of politeness, but rather part of our trying to keep everything very concise. Accepting and upvoting answers is the preferred way here to say “thank you” to users who helped you.
    – jub0bs
    May 4 '13 at 9:48
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    "(...) is needed for the journal I am writing for" Doesn't the journal provide a mandatory class, including command definitions for this kind of things?
    – T. Verron
    May 4 '13 at 11:38
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One way of doing it in the article class (which is used in the template you link to) is by inserting the following lines in your preamble:

\makeatletter
\def\mycopyright#1{%
    \protected@xdef \@thanks {\@thanks \protect \footnotetext [\the \c@footnote ]{#1}}%
    \protected@xdef \@bs@thanks {\@bs@thanks \protect \footnotetext [\the \c@footnote ]{#1}}
}
\makeatother

and then calling the newly defined \mycopyright{...} command just before \thanks{...}, like so

\textsc{Jonathan S. Doe}\mycopyright{Copyright: my mum}%
\thanks{Template by \href{http://www.howtotex.com}{howtoTeX.com}}

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  • I suspect that the internals of \thanks have been redefined in the past ten years. I get \bs@thanks is an undefined control sequence when I try this
    – Jeffrey Goldberg
    Oct 5 at 19:30
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Myself, I often use the sigplanconf class file, which comes with a built-in copyright notice that you can customise yourself. Saves you making it yourself! Download it here.

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  • That doesn't really answer the OP's problem. Can you show how to get the desired output in the article class, perhaps by reusing a command defined in the sigplanconf class?
    – jub0bs
    May 4 '13 at 10:28

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